TECHNIQUES: When they do not work...Bandhans, ShoeBeating, Mardini Mantra

...old nonsensical things stick on to you

1 - IF IT DOES NOT WORK...
2 - WHAT ARE YOU SURRENDERING… ?
3 - TO WARN YOURSELF, I WOULD SAY...
4 - THE RITUALS OF THE SHOE
5 - THE REASON I FIND THAT IN THE WEST PEOPLE GO ON CATCHING
6 - NO AMOUNT OF MY BLESSINGS
7 - HOW TO USE THE "MARDINI"MANTRA
8 -YOUR WILL POWER

IF IT DOES NOT WORK

...So they might be intelligent, they might be well read, they might be able to discover something out of matter, but they do not have wisdom. And the wisdom can only come through honest introspection.  (link) But it should not be also: "I'm catching on this chakra, I'm catching on that chakra." Not that, but:
"Why am I not seeing the point? What's the matter with me?
Why can't I understand what is Sahaja Yoga?"
Even when you have become Sahaja Yogis now for years together, still these old nonsensical things stick on to you, these ideas stick on to you. Why? Why do we not have that purity of Divine Discretion, which sees everything so clearly?

...Just to meditate,  - no!.

So I think we need collectivity first of all, 
and secondly meditative honesty. 
Just to meditate, sit down before the photograph, do the meditation - no!
Meditation should act, should work.
If it does not work, something is 
wrong with you. 
Absolutely something wrong.
If you feel everything is working all right, everything is miraculously showing Its presence, presence of the Paramachaitanya, then you are all right.
But if it is not so, if there are problems, then you're not, you're not a Sahaja Yogi.

Sahaja Yogi is the one who is completely 
connected with this Paramachaitanya.

Sahaja Yogi is the one who is completely connected with this Parama- chaitanya.
And for that, age is no bar. I have seen girls who are only sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years so wise. Even small little children who were with Guido, I talked to them. I was surprised at their wisdom. So very wise, so beautiful. They understood human nature so well. Small little children about, they were at the most, ten years of age! And nice to talk to them!
So that wisdom if they can have at that age, now we are also, all of us are about ten year old Sahaja Yogis, minimum, nothing else.
But still we are struggling, ambitious and wrong priorities. There is no need to have any ambition. Ambition is an imaginary thing.

But Sahaja Yoga is reality. 
Everything works out. Everything sorts itself. Everything plans out. But to feel that if this is so, as I said in a small room there are twelve people, it's something for the good. Why not? We have to be there. If I've lost the way, supposing, then I would say I have to go this way.
This time we made a ticket which was little wrong according to everyone because we had to go through Phoenix. But nice because I felt the vibrations of Phoenix, I had to go that way. I had to see that. So always to find something smooth, the way we want it to be smooth, is not the way of Sahaja Yoga. Whatever we get it, we see the hand of the Divine behind it.

...save the Americans, minimum of minimums

What  is our purpose of life?
Our purpose of life is to save people, save the Americans, minimum of minimums. Not the world, but at least start with Americans. That's our purpose of life. That's our identity. While doing that, there is Paramachaitanya which is going to look after you completely. But first you put your Self before everything else.
"I must have this, I must have that, I must have this." -It won't work out!  Then, "I have this problem, I jumped into bankruptcy, I had that problem, I just couldn't manage." Because you have put other things before your "self". "Self" means the Spirit. According to people, "self" means selfishness, but according to Sahaja Yoga, "self" means your Spirit.

...ponder about it and listen to it again and again.

So today's lecture should not be that we hear from one ear and goes through the same one, but should we little bit ponder about it
and listen to it again and again!
I have great hopes for you. I have worked very hard in America, very much. But it has never been that state where I could say, "Now I can trigger something."
Even if there are few Sahaja Yogis who are very deep and good, they are pulled down by others - by jealousies, by this, by that. - It's not the number that you are but the quality that you are, first of all.


(1990-05/28: National Puja Camp Marsden, San Diego, USA)
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...develop that dedication to yourself

WHAT ARE YOU SURRENDERING… ?
So now, all of you must develop that dedication to yourself, to find out what's your problem, and how you have to correct it. If it is done every day, I can assure you, you will have no problem of any kind. Your thoughts will stop, your problems will be solved, and you'll have no catches at all, because you have washed them off.

(Should we read “you” as each individual, but also “us” as a collective?) (Be careful about what follows)
Many people say that

"We are surrendered to Mother, and we are surrendered to Her, and as surrendering we’ll get everything."

But what are you surrendering?
Is that a clean heart, or a heart full of all kinds of wrong things? 
Or is that the intelligence, which is a very superior type of clean intelligence? 
Or else, are you coming out   with all your arrogance? 
So, though there is the Ganges of Sahaja Yoga flowing, still you have to have the depth of a pitcher. A stone cannot fetch any water!

…So you are not achieving all this for your ego, you are achieving it because you are a seeker, and now you have become a Sahaja yogi. So it is to be understood that it's not something like a advantage in money wise, or something that I have to have a power, this, that;

because if you do not meditate, your attention will go to such things.

Immediately you'll start thinking:

"Can I become the leader?"

All right, if not: "Should I debase the leader? How can I insult him? How can I fight for that? How can I do that? How can I work it out this way?"

You try to insult also.

If not possible, you might use violence sometimes,anger, because you are not yet, I should say, that much evolved, so much mature, so much wiser.

"You have no idea...,"

TO WARN YOURSELF, I WOULD SAY...

So now, what you have to do is to … at the very first shot when you get up in the morning, you first say:
"Let me see, what is my responsibility, as a Sahaja yogi? …Mother, if I have any ego, please take away! 

Mother, if I have any conditioning, please take away, because I'm a seeker in and out, I don't want all these things!"
But if you do not meditate, then this Mr. Ego will  secretly crawl upon you, and you may try 
to become the leader, 
or some sort of an assertion you'll do, 
some sort of a stupid ego actions, 
which we have many in Sahaja Yoga.

If you write them down, you will not know how to stop laughing!

So to warn yourself, I would say that the only way to protect yourself, is to do the meditation in the morning and evening, and also to keep yourself in complete bandhan.

Yours is a very important role and a very important time, extremely important.

You have no idea that, in the history of spirituality, no one could do so much as you can do.

So, if you really do the antarmana, if you really see inside yourself,  -while meditating you see yourself, your chakras and all that - and then,  you find out this introspection, 
"Why am I like this?" 
Just separate from yourself, see for yourself: "Why am I like this? 
Why I did like this? 
Why do I think like this? 
Who am I?"

-these questions, when answered, you will know all your worth, your value.

Christmas 2010, Genova.

I hope you'll pay full attention to what I've said here today, with full attention on your inner being projecting out, like a witness to yourself. …

( Mother is not speaking just “by the way”: She stresses that this is a fundamental)
Now, we are here to gain our spirituality, not to gain money, not to gain positions, powers, nothing. We are here to gain our spirituality, and in that spirituality, it's all there. All the satisfaction, everything is there. …(and NOTHING else)

1991-04/06: Shri Bhavasagara Puja, Brisbane, chosen extracts

All kinds of ritualistic things...

THE RITUALS OF THE SHOE
Now, people try to remove their ego. There're two types. 
So they will go on beating themselves with shoes. 
All kinds of ritualistic things they do to remove their ego!

But all this, you do with your mind: whatever you do with your mind, will give you ego only. 

They become ascetic : they are the greatest egoists! I must say Hitler was the greatest ascetic. With his asceticism he became Hitler. If you want to become Hitler, you, become ascetic!

In Sahaja Yoga, you are not allowed at all, all this asceticism. You have to be loving, affectionate, kind and disciplined.
"If you are hot-tempered, all right, go and beat yourself with shoes. But if you're not, then you need not. 
You must know what you are. First of all introspect!

Accordingly, you should work it out, but this ritualism is not allowed in Sahaja Yoga all the time." 

(1997-12/25: Christmas Puja)
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THE REASON I FIND THAT IN THE WEST,
PEOPLE GO ON CATCHING

…You know that, by puja, you excite the Chakras within me, and you get lots of vibrations, and you achieve, suddenly, a height in your awareness. You do achieve that, but after some time they say that "Mother, again we come down." Also, they were saying that “When we go to India we are all right, and when we come back again, we come down."

...So there are two types of meditation, two types, where one is the meditation where – we can call it the antarmana– that we meditate inside ourselves, to see for ourselves what's wrong with us, and how we have to correct, what we have to do about it. And another is bahirmana, is outside, how we have to live outside. You have to have a discipline, which is not imposed on you but, very happily, which you have accepted and have imbibed. …  

So, for the antarmana it is important that you all should meditate, …/... That is the reason I find that in the West people go on catching, again cleaning, again catching.

Every time I come {I} find somebody is suffering from either, for some sort of a conditioning, or say, some sort of a baddha, or sometimes it's ego, or something.

It comes and goes. It is not something that is detached permanently.

…

... we are not here only just to have  nice time

Day by day, you should be at a much higher state, and this new breeding has to come within us that we are Sahaja yogis,and we are not here only just to have good food and to have  nice time or nice meetings,

But we are here to become those unique personalities,

which are required to raise the humanity to a higher state. 

(Again:  how much time has been dedicated all those years, until now, to address collectively this issue, in Cabella, be it from us individuals, be it from the organizers?)

So you have to be now responsible for yourself.

You have to look after yourself and you have to tell yourself: .    "Mr. So-and-so, Mrs. So-and-so, please now behave yourself."   Otherwise, Sahaja Yoga is lost to you. It's not going to help you much.

We might increase in quantity, but quality-wise we'll be missing; and one attack of negativity can finish such a quantity that we think is too much – it has happened once. 

You should understand a simple principle. How can a big fire be lit with a small match stick? Will a wick hold the flame, if water is mixed in the oil? How can those Sahaja Yogis have enlightenment, who are using Sahaja Yoga to solve only their own petty problems? And why should God give them the enlightenment?

NO AMOUNT OF MY BLESSINGS...

 It's not only that you are here to worship your Guru; you may worship many-a-times, maybe the vibrations would flow, maybe that you might get filled with that and you feel elevated, nourished.

 But this nourishment has to be retained within ourselves, so always remember then, whenever you are worshipping any principle outside, you are trying to worship your own principle within yourself.

If you are a very mundane type of a person, very ordinary, cannot create a beautiful couplet or a beautiful sentence, or a humor or a joke, or a beautiful painting or a beautiful tapestry or a beautiful house; if you lack in creativity you will lack in your Guru Principle, because a guru has to create out of ordinary people something extraordinary. 

Shri Shirdi Sainath with a child

 He should be able to create a new personality out of an old personality which is decayed. 

So the first principle you have to understand within yourself, that you should be able to create a new personality in a person.

And the new personality has to be a special personality of very unique combination of compassion and dynamism. So it is important that in your creativity you have to use the energy of compassion.
So today when you are worshipping me as the Guru, you must know that any amount of My talking, any amount of my giving you blessings or anything is not going to work out, unless and until we really develop our own Guru Principle, and the depth. …. 
But if you do not establish your Guru Principle, you know of angels how they have fallen down and gone forever.
So be careful: it's easy to be an angel but difficult to maintain it.
(Guru Puja, Lago de Braies, Italy July 23, 1989)

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HOW TO USE THE MARDINI 
MANTRA

  -Yogi [French accent]: "Mother do we have powers to kill rakshasas?"
SHRI MATAJI: "Of course! You have. You have killed also so many of them. This is the minimum power you are.
 -Yogini: inaudible- something to do with using "mardini" from the negativity destroying mantras together with someone's name?]
SHRI MATAJI: You coin a "mardini" with anyone - finished! You see it is like this: I'm entitled, you see. I am the one who has killed all of them. So I'm entitled. I've got the title you see if you take My name title they finish off there. All their powers are dropping down; so you use that; you have been empowered.
Otherwise how do you save these TM people, these people that people? Poor things they are under the grip of these horrible rakshasas!
Yogi (French accent): Then they are finished, they don't come in another form?

SHRI MATAJI: No, I mean... You see they have so many other, styles of things, but you definitely kill some of them. Like in the war, you see? You are killing the enemies. You kill one, then another soldier, third soldier, forth soldier, like that.

(click to see the condition)
 -Yogini:[italian] Mother, what shoebeating does to a person who is full of catches and bhoots? If we should shoebeat a person who is full of...?
SHRI MATAJI: No, d'you see, we should remove our interest a little bit, and give [them] the photograph. Let them work on photograph. If they are not interested in photograph, just forget the person. You should not show interest in people who have no interested in the photograph. See that's the best way. Why unnecessarily waste your energy?
Yogini: What happens if these people are in immediate contact with us, like living with us? We cannot just, you know, ignore these people, I mean...
SHRI MATAJI: No you -if they don't listen to you about these things, try to cut off from them, and also tell me their names: I'll manage them...
Yogini [?]: [not clear ? How to manage to get rid of them?]
SHRI MATAJI: No-no-no! Give me, in writing! Give me in writing, give me a photograph. Then, I'll manage.
.../...
Yogi: [not clear] I've been living with them for six years.
SHRI MATAJI: Yes but you give me the names, and the thing, I'll manage them. (...)
SHRI MATAJI: There's no need at all. Forget them! You see, no need to do that, firstly. Secondly, is that you learn, you see, they're a good subject to learn. You see otherwise how will you know what sort of people they are?
(My sweater? ...)
You see, among yourself only, you can find out. Just now they say "How [Kuli] has answered the question." Just don't worry. (Who is there?) You are living with stones and you are living with so many other things. (...)
 - Yogini [Italian]: But, don't You think Mother, of the children, [that] through their innocence, they have more chances to get their realization faster than the adults?
SHRI MATAJI: Children?
Yogini: Yes.
SHRI MATAJI: Yes they can. But I mean, some children can be very nasty, can be horrible. 
1979-12/02: Guru Puja, Dollis Hill, London

YOUR 
WILL POWER

My dear Modi, 
and other Sahaja Yogis,
Many blessings! Received your letter.
 I am very glad to know that your Ida Nadi has become clean and I hope, Ida Nadis of all have become clean at least to some extent. 
Here I had told all, that I would work, while under anaesthesia, to clean the Ida channels of all. I worked for 3 days cleaning it by vomiting nearly 50 times every day and it is nice that the cleaning

has become possible.

 This physicaI being has to be used for the mission for which it has been taken and therefore I am not bothered by the illness and other troubles. On the contrary all such and different experiments with this incarnation will have to be performed. Why are you so anxious about it ? What else is the use of this body ? I never have any pains. All I want is that, in the laboratory of this body, some work or the other must go on.
Time is short, while the work to be done is very big. You cannot do the cleaning of Ida channel only on the strength of your realisation. I knew that it had to be cleaned from within [by Shri Mataji / the Kundalini] . 

Delhi, 1979

In ancient days all seekers had to do this action (Kriya) constantly right from their childhood at the residences of their gurus at isolated places. The seekers had to do it individually in many lives.
Because, now you have attained the state of collectivity I have done it in collective consciousness. Although you say I have done it, the distinction of you and I should not be there in collective consciousness.
Mantras ‘Twam Bhawani, Twam Durga, Twam Ambika' etc. are good for Ida Channel, but when you are established in Sahaja Yoga, you will have to say ‘Aham Bhavani’. However, this Mantra can be said only when your purity becomes one with that of ‘Aham Bhavani’, and I tell you now itself that this wiIl happen. 
After cleaning the Ida Channel, I am awakening Pingala Nadi. 
Sahaja Yogis had become rather lethargic due to the conditioning of Ida Channel: laziness and a tendency of avoiding the work was dominating in them. Their attention was being frittered away on avoiding the work. 
But I have now started the work of awakening Pingala Channel. All of you should raise your right hand from right side over your head and leave it on the left side but while doing it, you must apply your will power so that your desires will materialize.
With the awakening of collectivity, you will have many people to share your work which you are doing alone.

Hand drawing by Shri Mataji:
locations in the Sahasrara area

The sphere of Sahasrara envelops your heart. When conditioning of heart is reduced, as if the glass of a lamp becomes clean, rays of ever-resplendent Spirit awaken Sahasrara sheath, and the light of bliss spreads, which is felt in Sahasrara. This light enlightens all sides of colourful heart and decorates it with the qualities which can be described as pleasing, blissful etc.

2010, Birthday

Gradually this state will grow and become stable within you. Most of the Sahaja Yogis should try this method, but there should not be merely the mechanical movement of hands.

Whatever you do, it should be done with the faith that you have in worshipping, zeal of a warrior and sensitivity of an artist. There should be complete purity in the recitation of Mantras to awaken the deities and your heart must be involved in it.

Only then the awakening will take place.
Lighthouses do not show light to themselves even for a moment. Therefore, they are considered so important and are looked after.
Please circulate this letter among all Sahaja Yogis.
Your Mother, NIRMALA
 ( Old letter of the 70'es found thanks to  Derek Ferguson)

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